COMPOSITIONS & TRANSCRIpTions

Selected Compositions

A complete list of Yvar Mikhashoff’s compositions can be accessed here.

Beggars’ Songs (1969)

Voice and piano
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  1. Offering (Carl Sandburg)

  2. Rebuff (Carl Sandburg)

  3. The white birds (W. Butler Yeats)

  4. Interlude

  5. Alms (Anna Morrow Lindbergh)

  6. Beggars (John Ackerman-Jones)

  7. A time of waiting (Robert Graves)

  8. Epilogue (Carl Sandburg)

Canciones de Lorca (1970)

Voice and piano

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Concerto (rev. 1976)

Viola and orchestra 

Dances for Davia (first set) (1958)

Flute and piano
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  1. Overture

  2. Waltz for a rainy day

  3. Amy’s Piece

  4. Sergei’s Bourrée no. I

  5. Yellow Waltz

  6. Gypsy Dance

  7. Sad doll

  8. Tag, and tired

Dances for Davia (second set) (1979)

Flute and piano

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  1. Prelude for a princess

  2. Humming Song

  3. David's Pavane

  4. Sergei's Bourrée no. 2

  5. Silver waltz

  6. Magic wind-dance

  7. The song of the blue fairy

  8. Grand Finale

Elemental Figures (1990)

Piano

  1. Diviner
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  2. Shaman
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  3. Sybil
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Flowers for Joan Mitchell (1988)

Violin, Percussion, Piano

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  1. Sunflowers

  2. No daisies

  3. Bluet, bluet, bluet

  4. Two sunflowers 

Frutta Erbarggi (1971)

Soprano Voice, Flute, Clarinet/Bass clarinet, English Horn, Horn, Cello, Double Bass, Percussion

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In memoriam: Benjamin Britten (1977)

High Voice, Oboe, Violoncello
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Night Dances (1985)

Version 1 for String Trio 

Version 2 for Alto Flute, Trumpets (2), Trombones (3), Percussion, Piano

Prelude, Variations and Fugue (1978)

Cello

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Rosenkranzlieder (1969) (Georg Trakl)

Soprano and piano (also arranged for soprano and string quartet)
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  1. An die Schwester 

  2. Nähe des Todes

  3. Amen

Sebastian im Traum (1969) (Georg Trakl)

Soprano and piano (also arranged for soprano, 2 violins, viola, cello, harp)
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  1. Nachtlied

  2. Untergang

  3. Im Park 

Seis caprichos (1968) (Federico García Lorca)

Soprano and piano
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  1. Adivinanza de la guitarra

  2. Candíl

  3. Crótalo

  4. Chumbera

  5. Pita

  6. Cruz

Shadows and Dialogues of Melisande (1973) (Federico García Lorca)

Soprano, Speaker, Oboe, Horn, Percussion, Violoncello

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Windwife (1974)

Voice, Flute, Viola, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Piano, Percussion 

  1. Winds

  2. Déha by the sea (Serbo-Croatia)

  3. Si la nieve resbaia (Spain)

  4. Blow, blow, thou winter wind (Britain, William Shakespeare)

  5. The air was once about to die (German cabaret, Christian Morgenstern, translated by Neal Hatch)

  6. Es pfeift der Wind

  7. Mary on the Moor

  8. The wind on the danube (Hungary)

  9. La plume sénvole au vent (France)

  10. A ship was sailing (Russian) 

 

Selected Transcriptions 

A complete list of Yvar Mikhashoff’s transcriptions at the University at Buffalo Music Library can be accessed here.

Wirtshaus Gartenwalzer (Tavern Garden Waltz from Alban Berg’s Wozzeck)

Solo piano
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Portrait of Madame Butterfly (An Operatic Sonata-Fantasy on Themes from Puccini)

Solo piano
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Casta Diva (Aria from Act I, Scene 2 of Bellini’s Norma)

Solo piano
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Performance by Brian Keng-Lun Hsu

Trittico Fantasy (Fantasia on Themes from Puccini’s Il Trittico)

Solo piano
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Vissi d’arte (Aria from Act II of Puccini’s Tosca)

Solo piano
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Scenes from Childhood (Schumann) 

Oboe and string trio
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Jonny Spielt auf (Krenek) 

Violin, clarinet and piano
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Conlon Nancarrow Arrangements 

Sonatina 

Piano Duet
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Solo piano
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Study for Player Piano #15

Solo piano OR piano duet

Performance by Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo

Studies for Player Piano #1, 2, 3c, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 16

Chamber ensemble
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Study #14 

Bass clarinet, celesta, harpsichord, double bass

Study #17

Xylophone, vibraphone, harpsichord

Study #18

Xylophone, harpsichord

Study #19

Xylophone, marimba, piano, harpsichord